Word
Magenta
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
ma-gen-ta
Definition
- n. - An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a
green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also,
the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the
battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also
fuchsine, roseine, etc.
- noun - A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
- noun - A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- adjective - Of deep purplish red
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